Qatar

February 3, 2017

Weekend long read

1) UN Watch has published another report concerning teachers at UNRWA educational facilities. “...

July 9, 2015

BBC News website flunks story of PA arrests of Hamas operatives too

In addition to the ‘Newshour’ report previously discussed here, BBC coverage of the Pale...

July 3, 2015

BBC avoids yet another Hamas story

Over the past year we have on several occasions had cause to note the fact that the BBC has consiste...

July 2, 2015

Looking back at the sourcing behind BBC reports on Qatar – part two

On April 24th visitors to the BBC News website’s Middle East page found an article by Lina Sin...

July 1, 2015

Looking back at the sourcing behind BBC reports on Qatar – part one

Qatar is – to put it mildly – not one of the most frequently covered countries on the BBC Ne...

October 27, 2014

BBC playing wingman for Qatar’s damage control in the UK?

The lead article on the BBC News website’s Middle East page on October 27th (also appearing on...

September 8, 2014

NYT sheds new light on the topic of BBC expert guests

A New York Times article titled “Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks” from Septe...

June 18, 2014

A football story the BBC is not reporting

With the World Cup underway, there is understandably plenty of football-related content currently ap...

July 1, 2013

BBC schmoozes Qatar

Courtesy of News Sniffer we learn of a change to the headline of an article appearing on the BBC New...

May 21, 2013

Glenn Greenwald doubles down on claim that pro-Israel factions nixed Massad essay (Updated)

See update below. As we reported yesterday, Glenn Greenwald Tweeted his outrage after Al Jazeera rec...